Collaboration is important to most organizations but it is particularly important to the scientists around the world who are researching the complex structures of the SARS virus and cancer cells. When doing their work and planning future work it is vital
that they are able to see, benefit from, and not duplicate the work of others. To tackle these collaboration needs
TSRI has partnered with
Interknowlogy to build a revolutionary data sharing and visualization application they call the Collaboration Molecular Environment (C-ME). C-ME uses WPF, WinForms, and Office 2007 to front end Sharepoint 2007 . In this video Dr. Peter Kuhn from TSRI
and Tim Huckaby from Interknowlogy show us a demo of C-ME, talk about its origins and the impact it is having on how they operate.

Jonathan, I'm part of the platform evangelism team and we learn about these interesting uses of technology through a number of different channels, mingling with folks at our developer conferences, by working directly with partners and customers in our
early adoption programs, through our developer evangelists that are working with the community in their regions, etc.

Chadk, I need to contact them to confirm but I'm guessing that it had a lot to do with maturity of tools. There are definitely advantages to using WPF for the form based portions of the UI (like easy adaptability to screen resolution and shape) but at
the moment the Winforms development tools are more mature and better known.

﻿Chadk, I need to contact them to confirm but I'm guessing that it had a lot to do with maturity of tools. There are definitely advantages to using WPF for the form based portions of the UI (like easy adaptability to screen resolution and shape) but at
the moment the Winforms development tools are more mature and better known.

I think you are right. But i see no reason for not doing it in as much WPF as possible. If you need a control, fine. You can build it yourself. Or as you already know, you can use crossbow, and just use the normal Windows Forms control!

Hi this is Jason Suess, I'm the interviewer for this video. I'll be doing a series of videos like this one that will be organized into a Channel9 show called Windows Vista Show-and-Tell. Along with these videos I'm hoping to provide as much information
as possible about the technologies that were used to build the apps and how those technologies were stitched together, thus the information below. Feel free to give me some comments on how this information is presented and if there is other information about
the apps that you would like to see.

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services 2007

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 builds upon the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) infrastructure to provide a true enterprise portal platform. MOSS 2007 features enhancements and new functionality in six major areas: Individual Impact,
Enterprise Content Lifecycle, Collaboration, Knowledge Discovery and Insight, Information Worker Solutions, and Fundamentals. New technologies to support these areas include the Business Data Catalog, Document Management functionality, Web Content Management
functionality, Excel Services, Infopath Forms Services, and enhancements to Search, User Profiles, Audience Targeting, and Single Sign-on. For more information see these resources:

The next version of Visual Studio Tools for Office is designed to help developers take better advantage of those new capabilities in the 2007 Microsoft Office release, as well as to provide additional infrastructure to ensure that Microsoft .NET Framework-based
solutions in Office run more reliably, efficiently and securely. Highlights of the June CTP include support for the new Office Open XML file formats, support for the new UI ( “ribbon”) extensibility model, support for the new application-level customizable
task pane, and add-in projects for the 2007 Microsoft Office System clients: Access, Excel, SharePoint Designer, InfoPath, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, Visio, and Word. For more information, see these resources:

The Microsoft Office system has evolved from a suite of personal productivity products to a more comprehensive and integrated system. Building on the familiar tools that many people already know, the Microsoft Office system includes programs, servers, services,
and solutions designed to work together to help address a broad array of business problems. Developers can now more easily build robust business solutions to streamline processes and connect people to information and to one another.

Windows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications on Windows. It consists of a Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0 (formerly WinFX) namespace, an in-process workflow engine, and designers
for Visual Studio 2005. Windows Workflow Foundation is available (currently in beta) for both client and server versions of Windows. Windows Workflow Foundation includes support for both system workflow and human workflow across a wide range of scenarios including:
workflow within line of business applications, user interface page-flow, document-centric workflow, human workflow, composite workflow for service oriented applications, business rule driven workflow and workflow for systems management.

The Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation provides the foundation for building applications and high fidelity experiences in Windows Vista, blending together application UI, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of your computer.
The functionality extends to the support for Tablet and other forms of input, a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility and UI automation infrastructure, data driven UI and visualization, as well as the integration points for weaving the application
experience into the Windows shell.

Windows Forms is a framework for building Windows client applications that utilize the common language runtime. Windows Forms applications can be written in any language that the common language runtime supports.

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